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I just had a realisation that IAR/IBR/ILE all have same ATK but different AR clean. As such, this led me to the question - what's the utility of +7 IAR looking like? How far can it bring her?

With a +7 IAR your Hermes can reach 77AR on normal conditions (assuming you have rosa+diablo), or 79AR with triumph+caborum. That's enough for you to do the rank 7 individuals, as well as dealing *reasonable* damage on the squad missions at Royal Road, even at high master difficulty.

With a +5 ILE you not only have 1 more AR (and with +6 you have 2 more), but also: 1) 4th socket (9% more attack); 2) possibility of using blessing (15% more attack); 3) possiblity of chipping more than 40% attack. It is, of course, significantly more expensive to get.

IBR is too hard to get. The advantage it has is the fact that you only need 3 rifles to be geared up against all kinds of enemies. However, that can also be a hindrance, like when you fight multiple human bosses and they all have different armor types, at which point you'll probably wish you had gotten a human IAR/ILE instead lol. Not to mention it's really not worth the trouble of trying to find 3000 twisted weapon pieces then breaking it while trying to +7...